From converted Cold War bunkers and missile silos
to specially outfitted yachts.
A doomsday industry caters to the mega rich.
Luxury bunkers with indoor pools, artificial sunlight and supplies to stay.
Sealed off from the world for years.
The billionaires, they understand that they're playing a dangerous game,
that they are running out of room to externalize the damage
of the way their companies operate.
Eventually, there's going to be, you know, the social unrest that leads to your
undoing, which is why these same people are looking at creating bomb shelters,
the most powerful people in the world.
They see themselves as utterly incapable
of actually creating a future in which everything's going to be okay.
Wow.
That, that won't give me nightmares at all.
Everything's going to be great.
Now, according to Forbes, meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has an estimated net worth
of 125 billion with a B billion dollars.
He works harder.
It's harder than everybody. I mean, he might why.
He might, but, $125 billion seems a little excessive.
Okay.
Now, with that said, with that said, he's spending hundreds of millions
of that money on a colossal compound on the island of Kauai,
complete with a massive doomsday bunker.
What is it with billionaires and their doomsday bunkers?
It's like we're destroying the planet. So and so.
We need a safe haven from the destruction we're creating.
Okay, so rest assured, even if the rest of us get a little dinged
up by climate change, the growing instability caused by economic disparity,
or maybe even artificial intelligence gone rogue, Zuck will be just fine.
Rest assured.
Actually, I don't even know if that's true.
And by the way, if we do find ourselves in a doomsday scenario,
if I had the resources to survive in an underground bunker, I wouldn't do it.
I would want to go.
I don't want to live in. I don't want to live in a doomsday world.
Like if I were in The Walking Dead, I would want to die
in the zombie apocalypse.
I don't want to try to survive in the zombie apocalypse.
That's not a life worth living.
Yeah, I think honestly though, maybe a fitting punishment for some people.
Like, I'm sure Elon Musk has got one of these things.
Well, imagine the end of the world falls. Elon manages to make it to his bunker.
He's down there, and now he needs to spend the rest of his
life alone in a room with Elon Musk.
My god. And he can't tweet to anyone.
There's no lackeys to laugh at his jokes. Yeah, that is hell for him.
I hope he lives a long time.
If everything is destroyed, there's no enjoyment left in life.
Okay, anyway, but let's get back to Zuckerberg's bunker.
Let's talk about the digs. Okay?
What will it include?
Well, wired actually recently published a massive investigation of this compound,
and here's what they discovered.
So Zuckerberg began buying up
the 1400 acres that make up the property,
which is called the Koolau Ranch.
He bought it in 2014.
So the ranch will, according to planning documents, include a 5000 square foot
underground shelter, have its own energy and food supplies and
when coupled with land purchase prices, will cost in excess of $270 million.
How is there not a wealth tax?
So the partially completed compound consists of more than a dozen buildings
and at least 30 bedrooms and 30 bathrooms in total.
It is centered around two mansions, with a total floor area comparable to
a professional football field 57,000ft², which contain multiple elevators,
offices, conference rooms.
For what?
But like for what? Well, this is.
The above ground stuff.
So this is where a whole bunch of rich a-holes go on a regular basis.
Okay. That's fine.
Okay. Away from everyone.
- That's great. - That's awesome.
Okay.
And also an industrial sized kitchen now in a nearby wooded area, a web of 11
disk shaped treehouses are planned.
That actually sounds pretty lit. Like I'm I'm a fan of treehouses.
I've always wanted one which will be connected by intricate rope bridges.
This sounds really good, allowing visitors to cross from one building to the next
while staying among the tree tops.
A building on the other side of the main mansions will include a full size gym, a
pools May sauna, hot tub, definitely cold plunge, not interested and tennis court.
The property is dotted with other guest houses and operations buildings I love.
Isn't it nice to have a property that's dotted with houses?
Just a sprinkling of of houses?
I love that your fantasy, by the way, is to live as an Ewok.
No, that's all you want.
Wouldn't that be so cool to have, like, a series of treehouses on your.
Property that you can like.
Yeah, like go like and then use like the rope bridges to travel to.
Yeah.
I want to be an elf as much as the next guy.
Sure.
I don't know, I think having a house, I think for most people
is a pretty nice dream.
Dude, I've given up on that dream. It's over.
Yeah. It's over.
It's never going to happen. I'm okay.
I have a condo.
I'm very, very fortunate. I'm not going to complain.
But if that hasn't made you want to, you know, ensure that we're actually having
the wealthiest people among us pay their fair share in taxes.
Wait till you hear the next part.
According to sources and planning documents reviewed by wired,
the compound will be self-sufficient with its own water tank, 55ft in diameter
and 11ft tall, along with a pump system.
A variety of food is already produced across its 1400 acres
through ranching and agriculture.
I gotta say, it's kind of impressive, and it makes me think of that HBO show.
I'm forgetting the name. The Last of us?
Yes, the Last of Us. Where, there was the more libertarian guy who, like, built his.
Sure. Yeah.
His whole situation that was self-sustaining.
He's growing his own food. They're drinking like fancy wine.
- Yeah, yeah, it. - Is good to plan.
Ahead.
It is, I guess if you expect the apocalypse.
That's, of course, the above ground thing. Yeah.
Like if there's an apocalypse, if there's a nuclear apocalypse
or something like that, then that's not going to be sustainable.
Also, who's who's working those farms? Zuckerberg.
Is he pulling up turnips and stuff like that?
No, but this is good.
I mean, he's going to save a few workers in the apocalypse because he needs someone
to do the agricultural work.
They could avoid all of these apocalypses and still be wealthier
than the empires emperors of old, but instead they risk utter societal collapse
so that they can have 11 tree houses instead of seven tree houses.
Yeah, that's what the rich do.
Yeah, their boundless dragon sickness is going to doom us all,
because they need to have 1400 acres instead of 900 acres or whatever.
So the plans show that the two central mansions will be joined by a tunnel
that branches off into a 5000 square foot underground shelter featuring living
space, a mechanical room, an escape hatch that can be accessed via ladder.
The door in the underground shelter will be constructed out of metal
and filled in with concrete, a style common in bunkers and bomb shelters.
I can't help but think about birds with this story, because the reason
why birds are dinosaurs is because they were around when dinosaurs were around,
and they survived the asteroid because some of them lived underground.
- I see where you're going with this. - You get what I'm saying?
So you're saying someday flash forward past the apocalypse, 100 million years.
You have a tiny little Mark Zuckerberg like bird.
You know, he's evolved. What's gonna happen?
Yeah.
What's going to happen is there's going to be an entirely new species
that goes Zuckerberg watching.
- Right? - Who are the humans that are gonna be?
- Oh, you mean some future thing? - I'm just kidding.
No, this is all dystopian. This is all awful.
Welcome to America.
And welcome to an unfair system that overwhelmingly benefits people who hoard
all this wealth and spend it on nonsense.